This here is a Whitley Bay song. Inspired by a poster in the infamous Ship Inn whilst I quaffed ale with my publishing mentor Brian Oliver. I worked on the concept for the song on the train journey home. Eventually, I reached home, a bedsit attached to the Burgundy Cobbler nightclub in Whitley Bay. First I rolled a joint with fresh leaves from the plant on my window sill looking down on the dark rain South Parade below. Suitably mellow I picked up my battered acoustic guitar and I put together the song Paris By Air. A month or so later I moved out of the Cobbler a short distance to Cambridge Avenue to share a house with the Tygers Of Pan Tang. This was a Whitley Bay rock n roll house but as yet no blue plaque. At the request of John Sykes as to what I had been up to in the studio that day, I played the boys my new demo of Paris By Air. The rest is history – hit single, top 20 album. You can hear the Tygers do their own version in their Whitley Bay Playhouse show on Nov 9th. It will probs be a bit louder than this acoustic version with my team of Funsters at our Two By Two Brewery show – a Saturday Party People production from Martin Thompson (Nepotism at its best) Video by Mark Myschreest with more to come.
